rational
Issue #40
30 December, 2018 // View full list
Predicting Personality from Book Preferences with User-Generated Content Labels // www.researchgate.net
# Instrumental
Akrasia is confusion about what you want // G Gordon Worley III, 11 min Favorite
Sunscreen. When? Why? Why not? // Viktor Riabtsev, 1 min
# Epistemic
On Disingenuity // Chris_Leong, 1 min
What does it mean to "believe" a thing to be true? // Senarin, 1 min
# Ai
Penalizing Impact via Attainable Utility Preservation // TurnTrout, 3 min Favorite
Reinterpreting "AI and Compute" // habryka, 1 min
[Video] Why Not Just: Think of AGI Like a Corporation? (Robert Miles) // habryka, 11 min
Best arguments against worrying about AI risk? // Chris_Leong, 1 min
Why I expect successful alignment // Tobias_Baumann, 1 min
# Anthropic
Can dying people "hold on" for something they are waiting for? // Raemon, 1 min
Reverse Doomsday Argument is hitting preppers hard // avturchin, 1 min
Choose: Allies or Accuracy // Robin Hanson, 1 min
# Decision theory
Contrite Strategies and The Need For Standards // sarahconstantin, 4 min
# Math and cs
State Machines and the Strange Case of Mutating API // Martin Sustrik, 2 min
# Books
The Aristillus Series // Robin Hanson, 4 min
# Community
Boston Solstice 2018 Retrospective // jkaufman, 4 min
Bay Area: reading, writing, moving, celebrating // KatjaGrace, 3 min
Please Take The 2019 SSC Survey // Scott Alexander, 2 min
# Culture war
When OK to Discriminate? // Robin Hanson, 1 min
Do I Offend? // Robin Hanson, 2 min
# Fun
Card Collection and Ownership // Zvi, 19 min
Artifact Embraces Card Balance Changes // Zvi, 5 min
Card Balance and Artifact // Zvi, 10 min
# Misc
Why Don't Creators Switch to their Own Platforms? // Jacobian, 1 min
Isaac Asimov's predictions for 2019 from 1984 // Jan_Kulveit, 2 min
1987 Sci-Fi Authors Timecapsule Predictions For 2012 // namespace, 1 min
In what ways are holidays good? // DanielFilan, 1 min
Links 12/18: Boughs Of Hollink // Scott Alexander, 9 min
# Podcasts
#50 - Dr David Denkenberger on how to feed all 8b people through an asteroid/nuclear winter // The 80000 Hours team, 177 min
# Videos of the week
*WHY* Build AI? | Roz Picard | TEDxBeaconStreet // TEDx Talks, 20 min